And it’s even tighter outside Portland
This month, the state began acting on the results of a
long-awaited Oregon Housing Needs Analysis, hoping the trove of data will help
policymakers solve Oregon’s housing shortage. Lawmakers dug right in, inviting economists from the
consulting firm ECOnorthwest to brief both the House Committee on Housing and
Homelessness and the Senate Housing and Development Committee last week on
their analysis, which underlies state data…
